Webb Pierce "Walking the Streets" - Drake, Day vs. new guy?

[Mark Hepler]

Same song--different steel players . . .

Heard this early '60s track on the radio: love the solo at 1:10. Has a great '50s / '60s Hawaiian hybrid style! Credited to Pete Drake but sounds like Jimmy Day ... what do you think?

https://youtu.be/m44UM0DNvPI?feature=shared

The next one's still pretty cool--not bad at all--a little Mooney in there.

https://youtu.be/-527wB8nNOM?feature=shared

But then there's the 3rd remake that sounds too pro, bright and loud for the vibe ... yes?

https://youtu.be/nV6-GRe9MPI?feature=shared

Through it all, ol' Webb rocks.

[Pete Finney]

The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.

[Dan Kelly]

In all three, I am surprised that the producers did not leave a lot of room for any instrument, let alone steel, to do much fill work. Even the "solos" were short. Yeah, it IS about Webb Pierce, after all, but still.

[Mark Hepler]

The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.

Good to know. Must have been a fork in the road back when or we'd all be playing C6:) Commercial country would have sounded way different. Why'd we take the E9 path--is it really any better? Who knows...

Sneaky Pete kept the 6th: a standard non-pedal tuning dropped down a step. (Invented his own copedent?) He played the bejesus out of Hawaiian songs on his solo records.

[Johnny Cox]

The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.

Good to know. Must have been a fork in the road back when or we'd all be playing C6:) Commercial country would have sounded way different. Why'd we take the E9 path--is it really any better? Who knows...

Sneaky Pete kept the 6th: a standard non-pedal tuning dropped down a step. (Invented his own copedent?) He played the bejesus out of Hawaiian songs on his solo records.

That was during the time E9th was in it's infancy. The were no F# and D# stings yet. Pete played C6th on tons of hits in those days as did Jerry Byrd without pedals.